Resistance has also been an important
part of African and indigenous life in the Americas. It will continue to
do so until the nation-states that were formed for the benefit of few and
to the exclusion of many continue to ignore the disparities fostered by
excluding those who have refused to "get with the program" and
identify as Hispanics/Latinos and forget the African or indigenous component
that continues to be denigrated throughout the Americas.

Through their music, their rituals,
the culture of Africa has survived the time, the periods of colonization,
uniting its batá rythm and other ritual instruments, finding likeness
and mixing its gods with the deities of its oppressors, fusing its culture
and beliefs with those of its masters taking place in this way the process
that today is known as transculturation